public health

APRIL 3, 2020 – COVID-19 is challenging that most primal of human instincts — to be together. To what extent will this type of interaction change our understanding of what it means to be in a community and a society?

Density is more important than ever, but, in a time of pandemic it leaves city economies and city residents vulnerable. How do cities—governments, residents, businesses, civic groups—learn to practice safe density?

MARCH 27, 2020 – We hear from experts on China’s technology capability, how it was deployed, and what civic technology is in the works around the world.

These public health practitioners are serving the groups hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

MARCH 19, 2020 – As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, so does misinformation — thwarting efforts to control the disease and risking lives. Dr. Claire Wardle, a leading expert on content verification, outlines the global trends around information flows and the coronavirus.

Designated as one of Health Affairs Top 10 most-read blog posts for 2020, this piece provides recommendations on the COVID-19 Stimulus Bill to the Administration, Congress, and other federal, state and local leaders from public health, medical, policy and legal experts.

More than 100 cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported in the United States, as of March 3, 2020.

The USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine & Society Program have together established an advisory panel to consider how the U.S. can better link the price of health technologies to the benefits they provide to patients while ensuring a sustainable healthcare ecosystem that supports innovation.

Thrive Rural will work closely with community and economic development, health and civic engagement experts across the nation to create a shared vision and understanding about what it will take to create dynamic, sustainable rural communities where all people can realize their full potential and live healthy lives.

Underestimating the threat puts lives at risk. Overestimating it can cause panic and future, perhaps fatal, skepticism.